The truck, which hit the Justice Ministry, carried the logo of the Fallujah Department of Water, yet managed to enter Baghdad uninspected. Making matters worse, trucks are banned from the neighborhood around the Justice Ministry, which is surrounded by checkpoints. But the truck entered again, with no problems.

The governor suggested that going forward, the streets around the ministries may have to be closed entirely to prevent such bombings. This was the second time in a little over two months that insurgents managed to launch coordinated strikes against multiple key government buildings with truck bombs, and the massive security in the capital failed both times.